Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2007, 08:09 UTC
Message-ID: <45CADAC2.938303B2@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071559340.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Which makes me think if we should just disallow the "git-<builtin>" on
> Windows, since sooner or later, Git will no longer be used from the
> command line on Windows.

But all git scripts still use mostly git-foo instead of git foo :( They must be changed, too!

> And another thing hit me there: Are you sure that all works well if you
> change the install path from "C:\Program Files\Git" to something else?
> Without explicitely setting GIT_EXEC_PATH?

I think it doesn't matter (mostly). The git wrapper sets the exec path and augments PATH, so that the scripts work. It uses the directory of argv[0] if --exec-path is not used. The only problematic cases are where non-builtins (like git-send-pack) invoke other commands or hooks.

-- Hannes